Silverstein
American Dream
A Shipwreck In The Sand
2009
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com
Key: F#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Ebm - x68876
C# - x46664
B - x24442
F# - 244322
C#/F - 143xxx
Intro:
EbmC#BEbmC#
It was on our wedding day
BEbm
When my heart began to stray
C#B
Never thought I'd make
Ebm
such a big mistake
C#B
Throw my life away
Verse 1: beat swtiched from standard 4/4 to 3/4
EbmBC#
I've gone days without food
I've went weeks without
EbmBC#F#C#/F
sleep Keeping this in
EbmBC#
I've got cuts I can't close
I've got wounds that won't
Ebm B C#-- B--
heal It's all your fault
EbmBC#
I've been shattered and wrecked
Ebm
My hands covered in blood
BC#
Scars on my skin
EbmBC#
I forgot how to feel
Ebm
Now I'm weak with deceit
BC#
My skin is paper thin
Chorus:
EbmF#C#F#
We get through this
BF#
Feeling it keeping
BC#
it holding it in
EbmF#C#F#
We go through this
BF#C#
Over and over again
Verse 2:
Sing:
EbmBC#
I'd go years without tears
Ebm
In a life with no fear
BC#
A life without you
EbmBC#
Now I'm breaking my back
Ebm
as I cover my tracks
BC#
My skin is paper thin
Growl:
once again
(Repeat Chorus)
Verse 3:
EbmBC#
I've gone days without food
I've went weeks without
EbmBC#F#C#/F
sleep Keeping this in
EbmBC#
I've got cuts I can't close
I've got wounds that won't
EbmBC#
heal It's all your fault
Bridge:
Sing:
BEbmC#
My American dream
B
Wasn't ever to
Growl:
EbmC#
lie and steal and cheat
Sing:
BEbm
He won't leave
C#B
her for this
C#
What's the point?
Growl:
(I wish they would die)
(Repeat Chorus twice)
Outro:
Growl:
Ebm
This was not a test
BC#
This was all for real
(Repeat x3)
Ebm
This was not a test
BEbm(hold)
This was all for real